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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 11 sec.) ; 163980368 bytes |
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More than 60 million Chinese children are growing up without their parents, paying the price of their country's dash to prosperity. Matthew Carney reports on the generation left behind. Li Yikui, 13, hasn't seen his dad in four years. His mum visits once a year. When asked if he misses them, his answer is silent: a quivering chin and a teardrop tumbling down his cheek. </br></br>There are 61 million kids like Li Yikui. In parts of central China, not far from the birthplace of modern China's founding father Mao Zedong, 80 per cent of children are growing up without their parents.</br></br>If they decided to stay in our village just because of me, I'd feel very guilty... a big burden. - Li Yikui</br></br>Mothers and fathers leave rural villages and towns for the big city factory jobs that have helped make China an economic powerhouse. Some return briefly; some never do. So children are farmed out to grandparents or boarding schools or left to fend mostly for themselves |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2016-09-06 at 21:32:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Child psychology.
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Children -- Family relationships.
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Parental deprivation.
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Rural children -- Education.
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Rural children -- Social conditions.
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Rural population -- Economic conditions.
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China -- Hubei Sheng.
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Streaming video
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Biao, Xian, contributor
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Bingxin, Xie, contributor
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Carney, Matthew, 1922- reporter
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Lim, Joseph, contributor
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Meiping, Zhu, contributor
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Mengjie, Liang, contributor
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Mingzhao, Liang, contributor
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Qian, Zhang, contributor
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Qiong, Zhou, contributor
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Yayun, Pan, contributor
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Yikui, Li, contributor
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